Hi Garry, Today Garry Taylor wrote:
> OK, before I go ahead and buy another Sun Ray... With the bad news about > Sun Ray's future, it makes sense to check out the alternatives. My needs > are fairly basic: > > We run Solaris 10 on SPARC, this will not change. > > We need to maintain a persistent desktop on this server, and have able to > be accessed by several people in worldwide locations, does not need to be > at the same time though. The desktop should persist all of the time, no > logouts, when another user wants to use the desktop, it's simply moved to > their client, and removed from the other user. This is how our Sun Ray set > up works right now. > > We run a CDE/Solaris desktop, no need for Windows. > > Does not need to be fast, just needs to work. > > So what exactly are the options here? Wyse, nComputing? I really don't > know. Sun Ray has been perfect for us for years, and I've never looked into > anything else. RealVNC? afik there is a version of thinlinc server for solaris, it should be rather simple to install it on your existing s10 server > The critical part is the desktop cannot need to be logged out to transfer > to another thin client. this is the default behaviour of thinlinc cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
